Joseph Shapiro
speaker
255 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Jul
Joseph Shapiro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was a cesspool.
I mean, they had cockroaches and cereals.
Debbie Tracy, I had a photograph of her with flies in her face.
She couldn't move her arms, just covered in flies.
Heritage House was not a place where these young people could thrive.
After all, Holland would later sue that nursing home for mistreatment and neglect.
But the nursing home would also prove to be a turning point in their lives.
That's where they met a man named Wade Blank, and he would show them they were capable of extraordinary things.
Blank, who died in 1993, wasn't disabled.
He was a Presbyterian minister who turned to political action.
Blank was a student in seminary in Chicago when he marched with Martin Luther King at Selma.
He did civil rights work in big cities, and he was a chaplain at Kent State.
But after four students were shot during a protest against the U.S.
war in Southeast Asia,
Blank said he felt burned out.
He needed a change.
He moved to Denver and he took a job at Heritage House, the nursing home on the wing with the young residents.
He was horrified by conditions there.
So was his colleague, Barry Rosenberg.
Most of the people who were there.
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